RVM and BDSM (Changelog Interviews #66)

Steve and Wynn caught up with Wayne Seguin to talk about his Ruby enVironment Manager and BDSM shell scripting framework projects.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
• Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Look us up at LSRC V next week.
• Madison Ruby Conference August 19-20, 2011 in Madison, WI.
• Wayne Seguin, developer at EngineYard, creator of RVM and BDSM.
• RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
• BDSM aims to create a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI).
• Dr. Nic Williams, Wayne’s boss was on Episode 0.5.0
• Peter Cooper helped get the word out about RVM.
• Michal Papis has been giving Wayne a hand with RVM and BDSM.
• Ryan McGeary says “Vendor Everything” while Wayne says he vendors nothing and uses rvm gemsets in most cases.
• Bundler now plays nice with RVM.
• Using BDSM, you can create consistent service interfaces for everything in your stack.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!